I never felt that she or any of the other characters were really in any danger
Chad has pretty much this reaction to Bujold too, so you're not alone.
I have a split mind when it comes to narrative expectations & characters in danger: I don't really expect that the protagonists are going to die horribly, because that's not what usually happens in fiction except in certain kinds of genres that I don't read much of [*]; but I still get really tense on their behalfs anyway because I get sucked in. So I don't even know if I have this feeling about Bujold's plots; but if I did, I don't think it would matter.
[*] Though I will note that I give it even odds that Harry Potter dies at the end of the last book. And I'm okay with that, at least in theory.
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Fri, Apr. 6th, 2007 08:08 pm (UTC)Chad has pretty much this reaction to Bujold too, so you're not alone.
I have a split mind when it comes to narrative expectations & characters in danger: I don't really expect that the protagonists are going to die horribly, because that's not what usually happens in fiction except in certain kinds of genres that I don't read much of [*]; but I still get really tense on their behalfs anyway because I get sucked in. So I don't even know if I have this feeling about Bujold's plots; but if I did, I don't think it would matter.
[*] Though I will note that I give it even odds that Harry Potter dies at the end of the last book. And I'm okay with that, at least in theory.